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The Anti-Kickback Statute [1] (AKS) is an American federal law prohibiting financial payments or incentives for referring patients or generating federal healthcare business. . The law, codified at 42 U.S. Code § 1320a–7b(b), [2] imposes criminal and, particularly in association with the federal False Claims Act, civil liability on those who knowingly and willfully offer, solicit, receive ...
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 7, 1986 The Anti-Kickback Enforcement Act of 1986 ( Pub. L. 99–634 , 100 Stat. 3523 , enacted November 7, 1986 , originally codified at 41 U.S.C. § 51 et seq., recodified at 41 U.S.C. ch. 87 ) modernized and closed the loopholes of previous statutes applying to government contractors .
Safe harbor provisions appear in a number of laws and in many contracts. An example of safe harbor in a real estate transaction is the performance of a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment by a property purchaser: creating a "safe harbor" protecting the new owner if, in the future, contamination caused by a prior owner is found. Another common ...
Mutual Benefit Life was taken into receivership for rehabilitation by the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance on July 16, 1991, after losses in an overheated real estate market led to a run by policyholders, who ultimately lost the purported "cash value" that had been said to have accrued in their policies. At the time, the collapse ...
Statutory Anti-Kickback Liability. The federal Anti-Kickback Statute , 42 U.S.C. 1320a-7b(b) (AKS) is a criminal statute which makes it improper for anyone to solicit, receive, offer or pay remuneration (monetary or otherwise) in exchange for referring patients to receive certain services that are paid for by the government.
Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 13, 1934 The Copeland "Anti-kickback" Act ( Pub. L. 73–324 , 48 Stat. 948 , enacted June 13, 1934 , codified at 18 U.S.C. § 874 ) is a U.S. labor law and act of Congress that supplemented the Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 . [ 1 ]
Penalties for violations of Stark Law include: denial of payment for the DHS provided; refund of monies received by physicians and facilities for amounts collected; payment of civil penalties of up to $15,000 for each service that a person "knows or should know" was provided in violation of the law, and three times the amount of improper payment the entity received from the Medicare program ...
Works related to Northwestern National Life Insurance Company v. Riggs at Wikisource; Text of Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. v. Riggs, 203 U.S. 243 (1906) is available from: Findlaw Justia Library of Congress ; Text of Allgeyer v. State of Louisiana, 165 U.S. 578 (1897) is available from: Findlaw Justia